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Your submission at Articles for creation: Achim Berg (December 3)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Pythoncoder was:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Achim Berg and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

—pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 19:11, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello, ResearchEditor05! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 19:11, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

December 2025

Hello ResearchEditor05. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Achim Berg, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are strongly discouraged from direct article editing and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:ResearchEditor05. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=ResearchEditor05|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 19:11, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello Pythoncoder, I am not being compensated, directly or indirectly, for my edits. I am simply helping a friend, without any form of payment. One of the reasons this article is needed is that there is another person named Achim Berg who is also German and also worked at McKinsey, which often causes confusion.

I would appreciate your advice on how to proceed. If necessary, I can limit the references strictly to publicly available articles from reputable international media outlets or other third-party sources. Any guidance on what needs to be improved would be very helpful. ResearchEditor05 (talk) 09:11, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello Pythoncoder, I just wanted to kindly follow up on my previous message.

To reiterate, I am not being compensated in any way for these edits and have no financial connection to the subject. My intention is simply to ensure that the information is accurate and clearly distinguishes this individual from others with the same name.

If possible, I would really appreciate your guidance on how to improve the draft so that it aligns with Wikipedia’s standards — particularly regarding sources, tone, or structure. I’m happy to revise the content accordingly and rely strictly on independent, reputable sources.

Thank you in advance for your time and help. ResearchEditor05 (talk) 09:17, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

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